# @clevelandmagazine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp22_FEJG-0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/4835792-clevelandmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-03-16T16:52:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/clevelandmagazine

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“You can’t run out of things to say about all that gray,” Jason Molina told the music magazine Skyscraper in 2002. 
 
Throughout his life, the late musician and Lorain native — who died 10 years ago today — wrote hundreds of songs, waking each day laser focused on his craft, and with a keen sense of interiority that allowed him to record each idea in its moment. In the process, he conveyed an implicit allergy to what was fashionable.

As a student at Admiral King High School, playing in wild alternative band The Spineriders and his first solo outfit Bleem, Molina revolted against the factory mentality that surrounded him. But later, as a scholarship student at Oberlin College, old enough to drive to concerts in Cleveland, he wore the bounds of his upbringing like a congressional medal. He lived with an understanding that Lorain’s confines were what set him in relief from the wealth, privilege and access that surrounded him. As an outsider, he found abundance. 

🖊️ Erin Osmon
📸 secretlycanadian, Ashley Lawson

👨‍💻Click the link in bio to read the full story from Molina biographer Erin Osmon.

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